Papers on semantics and grammar
By: Richard Matthews.
Series: European university studies. Series XIV, Anglo-Saxon language and literature,; vol. 258 =; Europäische Hochschulschriften. Reihe XIV, Angelsächsische Sprache und Literatur ;; Bd. 258; Europäische Hochschulschriften.; Bd. 258.
Publisher: P. Lang; Lang GmbH, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften, Peter
Published: 1993
Place of publication: Frankfurt am Main; New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 196
Subjects: English language -- Semantics.; English language -- Grammar.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. [191]-196).
Collection of six revised papers, two of which have been translated into English.
Table of contents: title: "Copping it" or "bloody asking for it"; title: Predicted possibilities, necessary inferences, and the like, "epistemic" modality; title: -ING; title: Modality revisited; title: Adverbial topics, interpolations, and after-thoughts; title: Prepositional meaning, the case of FOR.